We dive into Book 2 of the Wheel of Time - The Great Hunt! We discuss the secret darkfriend meeting that we read about in the Prologue and we get some clues as to who are these mysterious darkfriends. Book 2 starts up about a month after the events of the last book and Rand is undecided about what to do next. We also discuss one of the Forsaken, Lanfear, and what her motivations are and why she aligned with the Dark One ..read more

We wrap up our book reviews of The Eye of the World which is Book 1 in the Wheel of Time series. Finally! The last two reviews are video and audio podcasts, while the previous episodes have been audio only. We also discuss how we liked the book overall and some of our likes and dislikes. Next up is Book 2. - The Great Hunt! We will also be discussing various topics that are related to the whole series, so look out for those episodes to start dropping too ..read more

We review Chapters 45-49 in Book One of The Wheel of Time - The Eye of the World! The heroes barely escape the Ways and Machin Shin, then make their way to Fal Dara. At Far Dara they rest and prepare to enter the dreaded Blight and to find the Green Man and The Eye of the World! We discuss the Ways and Machin Shin and how the taint of saidin has corrupted the Ways. We speculate on what Machin Shin is and where it came from. We talk about Lan Mandragoran and how the Borderlanders revere him and why they keep asking him if the Golden Crane will fly again? We discuss The Blight and how it came to ..read more

The Fourth Ta'veren reviews Episode 8: The Eye of the World from Amazon Prime! This episode is the final episode of the season and is loosely based on the ending events of the book series The Wheel of Time - Book One: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. We discuss how the Rand decides to go to the Blight and find the Eye of the World by himself, but Moraine goes with leaving Lan behind. Lan and Nynaeve develop their relationship further. Padan Fain is in Fal Dara hiding out and ends up stealing the Horn of Valere with the help of some Myrddraal. Loial and Uno are killed?! Rand faces off wit ..read more

We review and discuss the Wheel of Time's Season Two Sizzle Reel that was released at San Diego Comic Con 2022! We speculate on the scenes that we can only catch glimpses of in the footage. We also review Rafe Judkins' AMA on Twitter that was also done at SDCC ..read more

Our heroes venture into the Ways to travel long distances in a short amount of time. But there is a cost, there is a danger in the Ways that hunts them! We get our first glimpse at who the Dragon Reborn might be…if you weren’t aware already. Also, Nynaeve shows how powerful she is in a Rafe Judkins addition to the story ..read more

In this episode we meet the Amrylin Seat herself, Suin Sanche. Suin and Moraine catch up on their plan to find the Dragon Reborn before the bad guys do. The Emond’s Field Five reunite in Caemlyn…oh wait in Tar Valon and decide where to go next. The group heads to the nearest Waygate and there’s a surprise ending when one of the group decides to stay behind ..read more

We journey to Tar Valon with the Emond's Fields Five as they have split up, but still continue on their journey to the White Tower. We see the White Tower and Tar Valon up close and see the Aes Sedai in their element ..read more

We review the fourth episode of Season One in Rafe Judkin's Wheel of Time series. We discuss Logain and how he proclaims himself the Dragon Reborn and if he is a false Dragon or not. We discuss Aes Sedai and their Warders. We follow the adventures of Rand, Mat, and Thom and how their journey to Tar Valon unfolds. We discuss more about the Tinkers and the Way of the Leaf. The main story of the show is the Aes Sedai and how they deal with Logain. We do go down some rabbit holes and talk about some Wheel of Time theories ..read more

The Fourth Ta'veren reviews A Place of Safety, episode three from the Amazon Prime series - The Wheel of Time. We talk about the late introduction of a main mentor character - Thom Merrilin and the lack of including another mentor character, Elyas Machera. We talk about how Egwene and Perrin meet up with the Tuatha'an and how the wolves come into play for the story. We talk about the place of safety and what that means for our Emond's Fielders. We talk about how people are reborn into the Pattern and if everyone is reborn or just a select few. Thanks for listening to The Fourth Ta'veren podcas ..read more